Master Shake

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Master Shake

First appearance	Rabbot
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Nickname(s)	Shake Zula, Shake, Cup
Aliases	The Drizzle/The Fume
Gender	Male
Address	New Jersey
Episode count	68
Portrayed by	Dana Snyder
Created by	Matt Maiellaro Dave Willis

Master Shake is one of the three lead fictional characters on the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Shake is a talking milkshake who appears as a large white cup with eyes and a mouth, a pink straw, and two yellow chicken gloves. Being the largest ATHF member, their house's door is shaped in Shake's likeness. His personality is consistently portrayed as lazy, stingy, simple-minded, mean-spirited, sadistic, and self-centered, all classic signs of histrionic narcissism. The character's role in the series is to make wild and illogical decisions, presumptions, and demands. He also considers himself (unilaterally) to be the group's leader. Master Shake is voiced by Dana Snyder.

Much of the series' humor is based on the thoughtless abuses inflicted by Shake. Oblivious to any suffering his behavior causes (other than Meatwad's, which is his greatest joy), he will become violently petulant the moment he feels he has been wronged in the slightest. He is utterly incapable of learning anything from even the most catastrophic consequences of his actions. Master Shake is rarely productive and can often be found watching television or, more characteristically, destroying the television and demanding a new one. Shake's usual victim is the relatively passive and generally clueless Meatwad. Shake also often causes trouble for their neighbor Carl, usually as an unintended consequence of one of Shake's ill-conceived plans that Carl gets caught up in. However, Carl and Shake occasionally unite in unlikely schemes in the hopes that they will each gain something (such as an unsuccessful attempt at polygamy with a Chechen mail-order bride). Shake is often killed or maimed when his plans backfire on him (which they almost always do), but even then, he has usually learned nothing from it.

Shake appears to have no physical special abilities, because when he tries to summon a power, he usually ends up dripping a glob of milkshake or occasionally launching household items from his straw, such as in the episode "Balloonenstein". However, Shake has the ability to suck large amounts of liquid through his straw, claiming to require 85 gallons of liquid intake a day. He is seen draining Carl's pool in this manner in the episode "Bus Of The Undead." Also, Shake is very efficient in the use of firearms, especially shotguns and a crossbow and has a penchant for chainsaws. Shake is the only Aqua Teen not to have his own room (confirmed at the very end of the episode "Handbanana", when he screams, "I don't have a room!"); he has used Frylock's room in the past to read pornographic magazines and dress up in an attempt to impress women. He seems to sleep on the chair in front of the television.In "PDA",he is seen sleeping on the living room floor.

Shake has a tendency to concoct elaborate and seemingly pointless lies to explain his every action and decision. More often than not, he lies to the simple and gullible Meatwad. However, he typically doesn't firmly commit to his more poorly thought-out lies, tending to abandon them the moment someone (usually Frylock) begins to doubt his credibility and replacing them with even more outrageous lies. He frequently uses this tactic when he is on the losing end of an argument. A common far-fetched lie he uses is "Dracula called, and he's coming tonight!"

In the episode "Ezekial", a smaller milkshake, named 'Jesus Ezekial Jesus' by Meatwad, was assumed to be Shake's son, bearing his strong, cup-like resemblance. This was discredited when Frylock discovered that Shake has never had sex, doesn't have a penis, and that Ezekial was at least 4000 years old. Shake's age is also stated to be either 30 or 40 years old (as he doesn't know whether he's 30 or 40). Shake does not have a brain, as discovered in the episode "Unremarkable Voyage".

Shake has also been known for numerous medical conditions. In the episode Super Bowl, Shake obtains diabetes and cancer, though the latter was likely a lie to attract attention. He has encountered many life and death situations, such as an encounter with the Broodwich and a guitar/axe wedged in his head for not getting money to Zakk Wylde.

[edit] Shake's flavor

There have been contradicting statements regarding Shake's flavor. In the audio commentary for "Baffler Meal", the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode that the Aqua Teens were originally created for, it is said that he is lime-flavored (unlike his flavor in "Baffler Meal" itself, which is chocolate). Contrary to that, in the DANGERDOOM song "A.T.H.F." on the album The Mouse and the Mask, it is said he is pistachio.^[1] His flavor has not been mentioned on the show, but whenever he expels milkshake from his straw, it is green.